Interlinked Thematic Vocabulary Unit Nº 27 v.05
Main Definitions
- subject 1 / discipline / area / field / subject field / study / bailiwick |n| a branch of knowledge.
- “Teacher should be well trained in their subject.”
- “My favourite subject is math.”
- subject 2 |n| an area of knowledge studied in a school, college, etc.
- “Anthropology is the study of human beings.”
More Relative
- major 1 |n| |US| main subject.
- “She’s a history major.”
- curriculum |pl: curricula or curriculums| / course of study / program / programme / syllabus |n| an integrated in course of academic studies.
- “Spanish is on the curriculum.”
- “He was admitted to a new program at the university:”
Subjects Classification
Arts
- art |n| a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation.
- drama |n| the literary genre of works intended for the theater.
- draw |v| to depict or sketch (a form, figure, picture, etc.) in lines, as with a pencil or pen, esp without the use of colour; delineate.
- music |n| the art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre.
Sciences
- sciences |n| the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
- biology |n| the science that studies living organisms.
- chemistry |n| the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions.
- "Blackboard drawings from his high school chemistry class would even serve as evidence in a patent interference case."
- geography |n| study of the earth’s surface, includes people’s responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation.
- geometry |n| the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties and relations of points, lines, surfaces, solids, and higher dimensional analogues.
- history |n| the study of past events.
- I.T. (information technology) / computer studies |n| It refers to anything related to computing technology, such as networking, hardware, software, the Internet, or the people that work with these technologies.
- social studies / social science |n| the study of people in society.
- maths |n| a science (or group of sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement.
- physics |n| the science of matter and energy and their interactions.
Other Subjects
- language |n| the system of communications used by a particular community or country.
- religion |n| the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal god or gods.
- literature |n| pieces of writing that are valued as works of art, especially novels, plays and poems (in contrast to technical books and newspapers, magazines, etc.)